fat and ugly
as i sat in the kansai airport, waiting to board one of the best inventions in modern times, i looked around a bit. it was the first time in 20 days in which i had been in close proximity to many “Americans” and i must say it was disturbing. we, on the whole, are a fat and ugly group of people. by itself, this would not concern me much, but while in Japan i noticed that–at least for the people i got to know–the Japanese do not exercise much. however, very few of them were noticably over weight. what this says, I think, is that it is not a lack of drive to exercise that makes us fat, but an inability to control our urges to eat everything we see.
Jane would argue that this is a result of conditioning by the media, and I would disagree with her–but only because she’ s my sister and I must immediately disagree with everything she says. in reality i would harbor secret whole-hearted agreement. Like that time she told me 1 was equal to 1.